[Footnote 953:  Official Records, vol. xli, part ii, 1013.]

[Footnote 954:  —­Ibid., 1046-1047.  The general council of the confederated tribes had recommended an increase in the armed force of Indian Territory and that it was felt could best be obtained, in these days of wavering faith, only by conscription.  The general council was expected to meet again, July 20, at Chouteau’s Trading House [Ibid., 1047].  In October, the Chickasaws resorted to conscription.  For the text of the conscription act, see Ibid., vol. liii, supplement, 1024-1025.]

[Footnote 955:—­Ibid., vol. xli, part ii, 1078.  For additional facts concerning the progress of reorganization, see Portlock to Marston, August 5, 1864, Confederate Records, chap. 2, no. 259, p. 37; Portlock to Captain E. Walworth, August 27, 1864, Ibid., pp. 42-43.]

[Footnote 956:  The most significant of Maxey’s rulings was that on official precedence.  His position was that no race or color line should be drawn in determining (cont.)]

propaganda work he had no peer.  At Fort Towson, his headquarters, he had set up a printing press, from which issued many and many a document, the purpose of each and every one the same.  The following quotation from one of Maxey’s letters illustrates the purpose and, at the same time, exhibits the methods and the temper of the man behind it.  The matter he was discussing when writing was the Camden campaign, in connection with which, he said,

...  In the address of General Smith the soldiers of Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and Louisiana are specially named.  The soldiers from this Territory bore an humbler part in the campaign, and although they did not do a great deal, yet a fair share of the killed, wounded, captured, and captured property and cannon can be credited to them.  I had a number of General Smith’s address struck off for circulation here, and knowing the omission would be noticed and felt, I inserted after Louisiana, “and of the Indian Territory,” which I hope will not meet General Smith’s disapproval.

    I would suggest that want of transportation in this Territory will
    cripple movements very much....

During my absence General Cooper urged General McCulloch to help him in this particular; General M. replies he can do “absolutely nothing.”  I am not disposed to complain about anything, but I do think this thing ought to be understood and regulated.  Supplies of breadstuffs and forage, as well as clothing, sugar, etc., all having to be drawn from beyond the limits of this Territory, a more than ordinary supply of transportation is necessary.  To that for the troops must be added that made necessary by the destitute thrown on the hands of the Government and who must be taken care of.  I do not expect General Smith to investigate and study the peculiar

[Footnote 956:  (cont.) the relative rank of officers [Maxey to Cooper, June 29, 1864, Official Records,